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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.525
People
Jean-Léonard Lugardon, Swiss (Geneva 1801 - 1884 Geneva)
Title
Study of a Figure Seizing an Ox (Study for "Arnold de Melchtal")
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Autrichien s’emparent des boeufs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1841
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381015

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk, squared, on blue wove paper
Dimensions
56 × 38.5 cm (22 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, blue ink stamp: CF in oval with small triangle between letters (Carmen Fontanet, Lugt 3225)
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: JLL in oval (Jean-Léonard Lugardon, Lugt 1486b)
  • inscription: verso, bottom center, graphite: 49 x 36
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 16485

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Léon Lugardon (Lugt 1486b). Carmen Fontanet, Geneva (Lugt 3225). [Genève Enchères, Geneva, April 20, 2016, as part of lot 252], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.525
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Danielle Buyssens, Les Nus de l'Helvétie Héroïque: L'atelier de Jean-Léonard Lugardon (1801-1884), peintre genevois de l'histoire suisse, exh. cat., Editions Passé-Présent and Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (Geneva, 1991), p. 34, repr. as fig. 30
  • Genève Enchères, auct. cat., Genève Enchères (Geneva, April 19-21, 2016), p. 38, part of lot no. 252

Exhibition History

  • Les nus de l'Helvétie héroïque: Projects dessinés de Jean-Léonard Lugardon, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, Geneva, 11/14/1991 - 04/19/1992

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